NIXON v. STATE

No. 68552.

653 S.W.2d 443 (1983)

John B. NIXON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

July 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Reich, Brownwood, for appellant.

Stephen Ellis, Dist. Atty., and Fred Franklin, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brownwood, Robert Huttash, State's Atty. and Alfred Walker, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of indecency with a child; the punishment, which is enhanced by a prior felony conviction, is imprisonment for 20 years.

We find reversible error in the overruling of appellant's objection to the prosecutor's asking of a "have you heard" question.

At the guilt-innocence phase of the trial the appellant offered the...

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